Dental Benefits Amendment Rules (No. 1) 2019 (Cth)

Dental Benefits Amendment Rules (No. 1) 2019

I, ALISON MOREHEAD, a delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following rules under subsection 60(1) of the Dental Benefits Act 2008.

Dated:

27 March 2019

ALISON MOREHEAD

First Assistant Secretary

Health Systems Policy and Primary Care Group

Department of Health

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1Name

This instrument is the Dental Benefits Amendment Rules (No. 1) 2019.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 60(1) of the Dental Benefits Act 2008.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Dental Benefits Rules 2014

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Rule 4 (definition of provider number)

Omit “Health Insurance Regulations 1975”, substitute “Health Insurance Regulations 2018”.

2

Schedule 2

Repeal Schedule 2, substitute:

Schedule 2 Eligibility of dental services rendered in a State or internal Territory by or on behalf of or under an arrangement with a State or internal Territory

(rule 8A)

Column 1

State/ internal Territory

Column 2

Date service must be provided on or before:

Australian Capital Territory

31 December 2022

New South Wales

31 December 2022

Northern Territory

31 December 2022

Queensland

31 December 2022

South Australia

31 December 2022

Tasmania

31 December 2022

Victoria

31 December 2022

Western Australia

31 December 2022